The Ohio Democrat. (Logan, O. [Ohio]) 1886-1906, 1887-04-23
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saing the saloons.
ADAM FoREpAuan's check is said to be
good for $2,0OO,0O0.
DIR. MARY WALKER has at last got into
the dime museum.
The National Amateur Press Association
meets in Cincinnati next year.
NEITHER wine, ale, porter nor brandy has
ever been manufactured in Japan.
THE Santa Barbara (Cal.) hot sulphur
springs have been sold for 100000.
Ir Is estimated that over 10000 Montana
sheep froze to death the past winter.
TRENTON, N. j., has elected its first Re
publican mayor in twenty-five years.
IF all the gas is taken from the bowels
OF the earth won't the surface cave in.
THE President appointed Benton J. Hall,
OF Iowa, to be Commissioner of Patents.
THE Bell telephone has 14.1S5 miles Oh
line and its earnings for 1856 were S3, ,O97,-
900.
GENERAL SHERIDAN has taken to the use
OF Indian clubs to reduce his increasing
flesh.
ONE firm of envelope manufacturers in
London is said to make 100000 envelopes
u day.
THE u S. wooden war ships Shenandoah
and Lackawanna will be sold at public
auction.
EGYPT, England, France, Germany and
Russia, are neck deep in annoying compli-
cations.
New YORK recently appropriated half
million dollars for the improvement of the
State canal.
THEY allow no marrying in haste in
Japan. 1t takes three weeks to perform
the ceremony.
A MITRAILLEUsE is being tried in the Aus
trian army which will fire 1000 bullets in
ninety seconds
AN Eastern man is trying to raise
breed of turkeys with four legs for Thanks
giving purposes.
THE Car is reported as saying he is
quite prepared to fight but doesn't think
he'll go to war this year.
The reports as to the Presidents poor
health have resulted in flooding the White
House with patent medicine advertise
ments.
UNDER the local-control law of Missis-
sippi, only thirty-seven out of the seventy
four counties in that State can now sell
whisky.
THERE are still remaining in Missouri
1864 acres of United States lands sub
ject to homestead entry and purchase at
$1.25 per acre.
THE use of opium. morphine, cocaine
and narcotics generally by persons of deli
cate organization is alarmingly large in
New York City.
COUNT Won MoLrKE is the Oldest member
OF the German Reichstag, though twenty.
four of his colleagues are more than
seventy years old.
EASTER Sunday came in on an earth
quake at Charleston, s. G. Church at
tendance was light in consequence, people
preferring the open air..
MAN in Burlington, VT, kissed
strange woman at the depot in place of
his sister, and she made him pay twenty
six dollars to settle the case.
PRETTY soon the question will be not
what Indiana towns are boring for gas, but
what towns have not struck it. Appar.
emily they are all in the belt.
MICHAEL DAvITT and wife were pre.
sented with furnished cottage on Kill
ney bay as wedding present The do
nors were Irish and American.
THE Grand Army Of the Republic is to
hold patriotic feast in all its posts April
"a, and take steps to raise the fund for a
memorial to Grant at Washington.
MEssRs. CHEW, Swallow and Hunger
ing were recently guests at San Fran
cisco hotel, while Messrs Fish, Bacon,
Plumb and Cooke were located at another
house.
A NOVELTY in flowers, mentioned by a
flower grower, is the ''moon flower"
blooming at night or on dull days. and
growing faster than even the morning
glory.
DOG in Black River Falls, Wis, COM
mitted suicide. He swan into the middle
OF the river, gave long howl, dived, and
made no attempt to get his head above
water.
SECRETARY FAIRCHILD is short and stout,
fond of riding, yachting and other out
door recreations, and an attendant upon
the services of the Protestant Episcopal
Church.
CALIFORNIA first attained fame as a land
of gold; then as land of wheat; and
now the Navy Department saysshe makes
steel which is equal to any that the world
produces.
CLERK MIcou, of Essex County, Va, has
been in his office as deputy and principal
clerk for sixty-eight years. He is eighty
years old now, and is candidate for re-
election in May
COLLECTING silver spoons in Europe is
the latest craze among American ladies,
They buy different shaped spoon in each
chief city, and have the name OF the place
engraved ON the bowl.
AT least two women have turned up WIN
profess to be convinced that Colonel VIM.
Kissane Rogers, or Rogers Kissane, is the
man who married them many years ago
and then deserted them.
AT recent legislative reunion in Maine
Hannibal Hamlin, who will be seventy
nine in August, participated in every dance
and escorted home in the morning the
prettiest girl in the room.
CLUB of girls in Dorsetshire, England.
are under vows to make their own clothes
and never to allow a servant to make their
beds or dust their drawing rooms.
ST. LOUIS claims that Grand avenue,
with its contemplated improvements, will
be the finest drive in the world. 1t il
fourteen miles in length, and in width
from eighty TO one hundred and twenty
feet.
THE Empress Augusta gives every
woman servant in Prussia, who completes
her fortieth year of unbroken service in
one family, gold cross and diploma,
bearing the imperial autograph signature.
In eight years she has honored 1855 serv-
ants.
DAKOTA has met the free pass question